Magnum Marine Included In SOBLACKTIE’s 2014 Retrospective

Back in July, the French Luxury Lifestyle publication, SOBLACKTIE, featured an awesome article on Magnum Marine, and this article was selected as the July Featured Article for their 2014 Retrospective. Check out the article below.

As long as I can remember, I have always been fascinated by speed on the water, maybe even more so than in a car. It is the strong sensation of freedom. As a child I had the chance to go to sea in France in the summer with my family, and there I’d see Cigarettes and other offshore boats pass our boat by 40 knots – while we were doing 20 – which was still rare in France. Today this fascination has been rekindled with the presentation of the 45th Anniversary book by Magnum Marine, the American builder and inventor of “open” yachting at high speed.

Magnum boats have always impressed me. They evoke a beastly and an impressive force. It is a question of design. To be honest they even frighten me; they are so “monstrously fascinating”. It has been 45 years that this has been the case for Magnum Marine, started by “guru” Don Aronow in the 60s and then grown and developed by Filippo and Katrin Theodoli in Florida.

If you want to know everything about the Magnum Marine saga, from the creation of these high performance boats, passing by appearances in the movies and on television with James Bond, not forgetting the famous owners, stars and crowned heads of States, and learning that many were decorated by famous names like Hermes and used for fashion photoshoots by the likes of Elle, you need to buy the Anniversary book published by Mondadori and printed in a limited edition of only 1000 copies ($100). The book can be purchased through the Magnum Marine web site.